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[stinkytofu]

I thought this was interesting.

79% Of Teachers Want To Leave China
http://www.zimbio.com/Beijing+China/articles/CWDbD8FdBB9/China+Foreign+Teachers+Say+Low+Salaries+Insulting

[Javelin of Radiance]

What are they waiting for? leave already.




What's that? Some of them have no education or other qualifications and thus no options anywhere else? Oh I see.

[choudoufu]

hahaha.....did you see this parts?:

"....I spent a day with Earl, one of the directors from the China Foreign Teacher�s Union who enlightened me..."

"Without two roommates I could not afford to live here."

"A 2012 foreign teacher survey taken by the CFTU in Beijing and Shanghai reveals that 79% ...."

"....Those teachers desperate to find a job upon landing are easy prey...."

"....I could not even afford to send Christmas gifts home...."

[johntpartee]

This was on Off-Topic a while back. I said it then, I'll say it now:

[dean_a_jones]

[Simon in Suzhou]

[Javelin of Radiance]

So many chinforeignteachunion inconsistencies in that chinforeignteachunion article hard to know chinforeignteachunion where to begin chinforeignteachunion dismantling it. chinforeignteachunion

I dunno, but all of a sudden i've got this urge to go join the china foreign teachers union.

Anyone ever been interviewed by the local CFTU rep???

[GuestBob]

16 hours per week at 200/hour nets you 12,800/month.

3,000 for rent (say) and 100/day for living expenses, bills and sundries and you have 6,700/month. That's just over a thousand dollars left in the bank every month.

Nothing paltry about 200/hour.

I get paid a good deal less than that and I still manage to save 3,500RMB+/month.

I read these links from whatever the hell group this is every so often and I don't recognize the picture they paint. I object to them effectively calling me a scab. "Union" my farce, I have never read such entitled rubbish in all my chuff.

[kungfuman]

I can never leave. How in my right mind could I go back to a country where Xbox games cost $59.99 when I am so happy to pay 5y a game?

[doogsville]

The article was right next to a photo feature called 'awesome celebrity homes'. Man, some of those houses are amazing. It makes me sick to my stomach to think that some actress or rapper is making millions and millions of dollars more than the people that teach their kids! Surely that's only two steps away from slavery? What can we do about that? I know, let's form a union! If teachers in Hollywood and Beverly Hills demand to be paid at least a million dollars an hour for teaching then surely change will happen.

I also found it interesting that it said 'comments have been disabled' at the bottom. Perhaps someone was injecting a bit of truth into the debate. Oh, wait, it wasn't a debate, it was an article based on one sad, angry persons opinion of how he's being treated in a country he came to and stays in for reasons unknown.

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[kungfuman]

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[NoBillyNO]

[Javelin of Radiance]